DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told CNN Sunday he is not surprised by the current instability in Pakistan, and said that if he were president he would be working to ensure elections took place there in the coming weeks.

The “way out for [Pervez] Musharraf and in turn for us and Pakistan is this guarantee, making it known now that the election will go off within sixty days and there will be a fair arbiter of whether or not it was conducted fairly,” Biden told CNN's Candy Crowley in a wide-ranging interview aboard the CNN Election Express as it ambled through Iowa.

Biden spoke to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto while campaigning in Iowa Sunday and told voters he was trying to connect with President Musharraf to talk about the political crisis in Pakistan.

The Delaware senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee agreed with the Bush administration’s decision to review U.S. aid to Pakistan and told Crowley he thinks the war in Iraq has contributed to Musharraf’s present situation.

“If you’re Musharraf and you see the last two years, our entire attention being diverted to Iraq, us not being in a position where we look like we’re in it to stay in Afghanistan, then you start cutting your own deals. I think that’s what he’s done,” Biden said.

On Iran, he expressed frustration with his fellow presidential candidates for not “connecting the dots” between the Kyl-Lieberman resolution, which calls for labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, and a jump in oil prices.

“The idea that we don’t understand, that we don’t think of these things in terms of how connected they are. My job as president is to increase the security of the United States of America, it is not to discreetly decide who each of the bad guys are and take them out if I know in doing that the consequence is we are less safe, less secure,” he said.

It's time for us to put more pressure on Musharraf. Tightening his grip on Pakistan will only make the instability problem worse. A constitutional democracy will keep Pakistan stable (an their nukes secure) by enabling the people to feel that their rights are being protected.

Americans do not belong in Pakistan elections or the country itself. American politicans need to mind their own business and focus on the problems in America (there are many). I am sick and tired of politicans trying to force other countries into a democracy that apparently is not wanted. If politicans should be focusing on any country it is Afghanistan..get in there, get Osoma...and GET OUT! Should have been done in the first place instead of waging an illegal oil war in Iraq.

Joe Biden has been in the Senate since 1972 and has been on the Senate Foreign Relations committee for 30 years! Can you PLEASE explain to me how Hillary Clinton is "more experienced" than this man???

"What it takes to win"??? What Hillary does have is the largest negative ratings of any candidate, republican or democrat. If she wins the nomination don't be surprised if we have 4 more years of republican dictatorship in the White House.

Educate yourself before you start spouting off Clinton sound-bytes...it makes you sound about as smart as a Bushie!

Biden calling for the rule of elections in Pakistan isn't interferring. He isn't sending troops there. Musharraf has suspended the courts and arrested the lawyers, not exactly a democratic move. Biden is right.

I dislike what Musharraf has done as much as the next guy, but elections in Pakistan could be very disastrous. Who would win these elections? Bhutto likes to think she would, but I have a feeling the Islamic fundamentalists are more popular at the moment. We certainly don't want them winning an election in a country that has nukes.

And what if Bhutto does win? When she was last in office she supported the Taliban and aided their takeover of Afghanistan, and several European nations have provided evidence on her corruption in office.

hahaha… I thought I heard that with Obama….Hillary stealing healthcare plan from Obama, Stealing slogan turn the page…Now bidden stealing what Obama said in S.C in a black packed church…….What is remaining?
Well this is not new to bidden who doesn't even come up with his own speech but goes to steal a British Member of parliament speech till he got caught. How ashaming for a U.S lawmaker and Official. Now you have started domestic theft. Wow bidden,
I thought Obama to you is nothing but, Wait a minute Obama support is now surging after the last Philadelphia debate.
Well, I hope no one elects fake people like this and Hillary. They are all Bush cronies and bad example for our kids. I want a real deal and I think from last week I just feel Obama got it right!

Biden's TV personality is likeable. Biden's last debate in which he pointed that he is more worried about Pakistan than Iran points to what being head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee affords you. Obama is on the Senate foreign relations committee as well but he didn't blurt out the danger of Pakistan over Iran. When you have a senator who has been in Washington for over 30yrs, I wonder whether that senator has the fortitude and desire to make changes in Washington that the average American voter wants?

Phil, go read a history book and learn a little. Then come back and have a discussion on the divisions in the Middle East.

You're the reason we should only let educated people vote.

And speaking of educating voters, Obama, and anyone who votes for him, is a fool.

Posted By Jamal : November 5, 2007 4:23 pm

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Wow, Jamal, aside from making an ad-hominem attack, what was the purpose of your post? Apparently nothing.

PLEASE – educate us Jamal. And don't start down the tired old path of 1950's Operation Ajax which help install the Shah of Iran. Or go back further to Pakistan being apart of the pre-partitioned British India. Maybe you'll share with us how the US has backed Israel and alienated muslim countries? Or you'll rant about how decades ago we supplied Bin Laden and Saddam when they were fighting Russia and Iran?

Let's hear it, Jamal. Please, enlighten us. Because from where I am sitting – it seems RATHER apparent our presence and political rhetoric telling their governments who to govern seems unwelcomed. But hey – what do I know? I don't have a muslim name, right?

Yeah, you're right, they shouldn't have an election, it's better to keep their country held hostage by the same guy twice. Worked for us.

Posted By Smiley, Arlington, VA : November 5, 2007 12:34 pm

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WAAAAAAHH! I cry alot because my party has continued to nominate unelectable dolts and we're about to do the same thing with Hillary. But we'll keep blaming the Republicans because "individual responsibility" is an idea incompatible with socialism.